continuing to pivot of the current tax code will not lose this economy. 9% corporate business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax and an 9% national sales tax, and it will pass because the american people wanted to pass. >> one thing i would say is when you take the 9-9-9 plan and you turn upside down, i think the devil is in the details. >> unlike his plan which does not pass because how many people here are for a sales tax in new hampshire, brazier hands. that is how many boats you'll get in new hampshire. rick perry's starkist shaking. he needed a strong showing tonight and that romney is the front runner which made him a punching bag tonight is will. hours before this debate, mitt romney won the endorsement of chris christi. he says it makes him the right candidate to lead the republican ticket. gloria you get crossers denied the pending 9-9-9, how did he did? >> okay. you know, he didn't get specific other than saying he really wanted to get rid of the tax code that it was clear that from a bunch of republicans, they believed they would never be able to keep a personal tax rate at 9% and also, a national sales tax is regressive and something they don't like. rick santorum, as you just show, made a good point. and many people in the state of new hampshire will vote for 9% national sales tax? the republican party doesn't like to talk about that, no matter how much from the cane does. >> it is not just the sales tax that is tough to sell, even conservative analysis says the federal government would lose 10 to 20% of its current revenue. how is he so that, that would make the spending cut choices even tougher nbc washington can't get that done as it is. >> unless you accept herman cain's argument that a different tax would produce democrats in the economy, not a bad argument made. but one thing herman cain needed to learn to night and didn't is that these debates are like parking your car on the hill. either you keep moving forward or you slide back in tonight, we may have learned herman cain's pin code for his bank card but we didn't learn anything new about herman cain. >> bronte had a great debate tonight. and newt gingrich. >> hang on. one thing -- hang on, dana, we need to know whether rick perry was ready to play after 2 criticisms, how can he handle criticism on the debate stage. the central issue was the economy. here is rick perry on his jobs plan. >> bronte care has driven the cost of small-business insurance premiums up by 14% over the national average in massachusetts. my question for you would be how would you respond to his criticisms of your signature legislative achievement? >> we at the lowest number of kids as a percentage uninsured in any state in america. you had the highest. i am still speaking. i am still speaking. we have less than 1% of our kids that are uninsured. you have a million kids uninsured in texas. and made his career under president bush, the percentage of uninsured went down. and your leadership, it has gone up. >> we will get to the jaws plan and the man appeared dana lash right there, going at it, did he turn and a stronger performance tonight to turn down the daughter's? >> no, he did not. i was waiting for this question to be asked center. i thought it would appear earlier in the debate and then rick perry asked him and i thought finally someone is going to ask mayor ronnie about this and it has an effect on business in massachusetts. he fizzled out. i don't exactly know what happened. he didn't call it. it wasn't aggressive within the question itself wasn't even framed in an aggressive management. one policy was we didn't raise taxes in massachusetts. we are able to implement this health care system. that is not entirely untrue because of the runoff costs that taxes had to go up after it was implemented. something that perry didn't follow up on and i was waiting for him to show everyone that he and fire in his belly, that he wants to run for president. i didn't see that from an tonight. and now i am beginning to wonder whether or not he is serious about this. >> that is important criticism. what should be perceived met ronnie weakness, that is one thing to put on the table. let's listen as he puts in a jobs plan. >> the present and particularly with the plan i will be lying out of the next three days and i will not let out for you tonight. irani has had six years to work on a commitment. i have been an ad for eight weeks. >> is that enough? this will be pakistani a, b. maybe he has more details been given his sleep in the polls, ask the questions of whether he can handle himself in a debate, is that enough? >> it didn't seem like it here tonight. i think obviously his campaign decided we're going to simplify things for our candidate. give him one idea, and we will let him be quiet the rest of the time and get through the debate that way. the last debate, the excuse was made he was standing up the whole debate and the entire. this should have been his because he was sitting down. the next time you get a mattress because there was no energy, no fire and it was way too simple. >> you know, instead of seeming like an aggressor, perry almost seems like a bystander and he really could not afford to do that. he just put out a brutal web at against mayor ronnie which attacked him on being a flip flops and on his massachusetts health care and then tonight, instead of building on that aggressively, he seemed to be more passive or a lot more passive than i thought he needed to be. >> if that is the case- >> wanted to raise a quick point. >> i want to add to that. to gloria's point, that is exactly how, sorry about that. to her point, that is how rick perry as 1 campaign is. he has never won because he is articulate or because he is the brightest and select. key always wins campaigns because he sticks a fork in the eyeball of his opponent and he has enough money in the bank and then-super and out there, i would expect to see some very tough ads from it. precession and the boston and i whoa media markets. >> dana, if herman cain didn't defend his plan, if rick perry was a no show, does that mean by default met ronnie 1 tonight or did someone else deal today? >> not necessarily. one of the things i was going to say was during the debate, the camp was sending out e-mails the things he should have been sitting in this debate on t.a.r.p. i thought that was odd and they did that pretty consistently. something they should be talking about in the debate. a great opportunity to distinguish themselves from these other candidates. their butts defending t.a.r.p. shocking. i don't think that ronnie wins by default. while he is a good debater and be as great rhetorical skills, his answers if you judge them by conservatism londell pass the smell test. because of semantics and he is an artful did there, he comes out on top. it being ratio is as well because he just choose everybody up and spits everybody out and is able to refine any debate that he is in. bronte comes out on top banking bridge comes out topic came did well but perry did not. >> let me close with this. cnn has a debate one week from tonight. if rick perry is 0 for 3, that is do or die. >> that is important. republicans need to believe that they're going to nominate somebody, this person can stand next to barack obama on the stage and go at him and do well at it. and if he cannot do that in a debate, with his republican contenders with the other republicans, he will have a hard time against barack obama. that is what people are looking for and he has not shown it yet. >> gloria, dana, alex, appreciate your insights. the cnn debate one week from tonight. just ahead, more breaking news. new details on the terror plot uncovered here on u.s. soil as with ties to, get this, iran. a murder for hire scheme to kill saudi arabia's ambassador to the united states. also for the first time, jurors hear dr. conrad murray's full story of what he says happened the day michael jackson died. 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that's where he and his family were living. because federal officials in the united states understood that under texas law he may not have been able to be held to do an intelligence interview. he was flown to new york. unbeknownst to the defendant, on the flight were federal agents. they took him in to custody and to a secret facility where he was held from september 29th until today. that's 12 days, john. each of those days he was interviewed by federal agents. each of those days before the interviews began he was given miranda warnings and told he was entitled to be presented on charges before a federal magistrate and each of those days he, in writing, signed a waiver. the reason he was presented today, the defendant was tired of talking to federal agents. during those 12 days they not only got a confession from him and we see that in the complaint but also dozens of intelligence reports and leads. those reports are being gone through across the agencies trying to find additional links. the interesting thing, john we know there are direct links to the irgc, the revolutionary guard. senior counterterrorism official tells me they have not yet found a direct link to the supreme leader or to president mahmoud ahmadinejad but that's what they are going through these reports looking for now. >> let's go through the process. ali i want to come to you first because you are familiar with the interrogation tactics. what does that tell you, 12 days of talking and i'm done. the feds decide to go to court. what does that tell you about the suspect and the process? it tells me the individual has been cooperating and that the government was probably taking advantage of his cooperation, getting as many intelligence as they can get. this is a very sensitive case. it has regional and national implications and the government needed to dot every "i" and cross every "t." i believe the fbi agents needed everything they could get from him and eventually after his cooperation ended or maybe it ended from our side, he was presented and appeared in to court. because the subject, the defendant, has a right to ask for an attorney and has a right to appear in court anytime he wants. just the fact he stayed more than 12 days, being interrogated by the fbi, that indicates to me that there was a level of cooperation going on. >> so, tom, fuentes, if you read this complaint and now we understand what happened in prison, it does read like a hollywood novel. if i you presented this in hollywood they would probably throw you out. but the key adviser to king abdullah. what is the goal. why would iran want to do this and why here? >> well, i think one thing that iran has an advantage is when they make the rest of the world mad at them and either create a situation where the united nations starts hearing evidence against them, or other statements are made, then that unifies them politically and internally. someone like mahmoud ahmadinejad can gain national power internally if it is iran against the world and that could be one reason to have an attack like this. >> iran against the world. bob, how unusual is it for foreign government? if this is we believe this. the republican guard of iran outsourcing an assassination to a criminal drug enterprise, a drug cartel? >> it uses proxies to to make attacks. it could go on and on but they always use reliable proxies. i've never seen them go to drug cartels, sit down in a meeting like this, send money through new york. it is sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. this is not characteristic of the force at all. it makes me wonder if there isn't somebody is losing it in teheran. it is a terribly risky operation and has been said by the department of justice it is an act of war. how can we not respond this? 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joining me now joyce watkins, founder of yourblackworld.com and do you first, herman cain says some of his critics are racist. you believe he's a racist. that is a heavy indictment. stick by it? >> yeah. i think herman cain, to some extent, is the perfect racist. because racism is most effective when it has a black face. a lot of people think that being black means you can't be racist but we have black people who have problems with dark skinned black people, black people who have problems with poor black people, et cetera. you even have women that will sit on a jury during a rape trial saying her skirt was too short or she shouldn't have been out that late. so women that hate women or people that promote an agenda not created by them but is accelerated by the color of their skin. remember, no other republican candidate could really get away with talking about race as much as herman cain has. to some extent he's at risk of turning his campaign in to a political gimmick. you see hannity and guys like him using him to say those things that maybe they are afraid to say themselves. >> ken, blackwell, is herman cain a racist? >> i don't think that herman cain is a racist. i don't think that harry belafonte is a racist because he says herman cain is a bad apple. i think race is being used in this instance all around the table to repress differences of opinion. when race issues to repress dissent, it is wrong on all sides of the table. look, herman cain as a republican, he's conservative. he believes he has a prescription for growing the economy, creating jobs and providing opportunity for all americans, inclusive of black americans. >> when it comes to -- >> i think the name -- john, john, i think name calling has gone too far. >> you are saying name calling has gone too far. we have known each other a long time and your involvement in ohio politics including being the secretary of state. you are among the african-american republicans trying to build support in the african-american community. is the language helpful to that effort to have more blacks join the republican party or hurtful? >> i think mr. cain's prescription for growing the economy is helpful. i think when he says that folks who differ from him have been brainwashed, that is not constructive. i don't think that calling him a bad apple or saying that he's on a symbolic crack pipe is helpful either. look, people want -- it is as if the african-american community was drowning 50 feet off shore. they don't want somebody to throw them a 100 foot rope and drop their end to find something better to do or a 25 foot rope saying a swim will do you good. they want someone that will hold 50 foot rope and hold on to their end. that's what we have to get back to. >> boyce, what about the argument, about the lack of ideological political diversity in the african-american community and many lib rap african-americans criticism conservative african-americans saying they are somehow abandoning their community. >> one of the best-kept secrets in america is that many black people are very conservative. i'm the from the south and a lot of people in my family want to like herman cain. some of his values are in perfect alignment with their own. i think what mr. cain might want to pick up on is this simple word called dignity. you have to run your campaign with dignity. you can't make ridiculous statements one after another and allow people to use you as a racial fire ball. colin powell was a conservative also. many people loved and respected colin powell. to this day, many people respect him. i know i do. there's a big difference between a way a conservative like colin powell would run a presidential campaign versus herman cain. this idea of gimmicks and turning yourself in to a black male sarah palin or a black male rush limbaugh, that might be great for selling books or getting a radio show, but it's not what people will look for in a commander in chief. i would argue he is acting more like a court jester as it stands today. >> is that fair, court jester, ken? >> that's youth outside of the pail of talking about human dignity. here's a guy that grew up in a low-income family, went to school, did well, created jobs and hired black and white folks and latinos. he, in fact, has lived the american dream. and basically to say that he is -- i have seen him depicted as sambo by the left s. that promoting human dignity? no. i'm saying both sides have to get back to what people are looking for. they are looking for leaders who inspire hope and create opportunity and pull i us together to get something done and i think i have heard herman cain over the last 20 years. he can be that sort of leader and i think he in fact needs to invent his program and say this is what i'm about. >> boyce watkins, ken blackwell, appreciate your voices tonight. and the president demanded a vote on the jobs bill and he is getting it but it is not turning out the way he hoped. in his own words, jurors in the michael jackson death trial hear dr. conrad murray's version of what happened the day jackson died. and kids tell us what it is like to be bullied and the toll it takes long after the bullying stops. >> it starts to build up and bad things start to happen. whether you start cutting yourself, you kill yourself, you develop a eating disorder. it is obsessive. it becomes obsessive. cars, plee . for convertibles, press star one. i didn't catch that. to speak to a representative, please say representative now. representative. goodbye! you don't like automated customer service, and neither do we. that's why, unlike other cards, no matter when you call chase sapphire preferred, you immediately get a person not a prompt. chase sapphire preferred. a card of a different color. 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>> i think it clearly helps the defense. you don't have to think back too far to the rob effort blake case where the prosecution played the barbara walters interview. he didn't have to take the stand. he wasn't cross-examined. he was able to get his story out. here you have him expressing the his love for michael jackson and everything else. i'm a little mystified as to what the gain was for the prosecution at the risk of putting in all of this evidence. if i can tell you, kudos to your network, unlike some other networks for not showing the autopsy photo. it is inexplicable to me why that is being played by other networks. >> let me ask you this question, why do you think -- we're not going to show it. we will have some standards here. why do you think the prosecution decided to bring it in to evidence? >> i think they wanted to -- i think the shock factor. i just can't imagine what the probative value was. this is not a case where there was a stabbing or a shooting and where entry or exit holes are going to matter or where it will make one difference to how he died. how he died will be based on the toxicology reports and medical testimony. looking at his body on a gurney doesn't give the your any value whatsoever. i don't understand number one why they introduced it. number two, i don't understand why the lawyers didn't ask for it to be sealed. if they did, i don't understand why the judge allowed it to be out to the media and lastly, i don't understand why certain networks have lowered their standards to show it. >> sunny do, you agree, shock value is the only reason to introduce the photo and do you agree the tape is not as damaging as the prosecution hoped? >> i disagree with mark. he should know in every case that is based on a homicide you have to show the autopsy photo. you show the lifeless body. they only show two pictures. i think it is probative, relevant and appropriate. as to the tape recording, i would agree with mark on that. i think there's no question that it certainly helped conrad murray a lot. now his story is in front of the jury. i think he sounded cautious, reasonable and he's not going to testify because he doesn't have to. he will not be cross-examined but his story is out there. i think mark and i have a 50/50 split but i don't think that people should be showing the autopsy photo. >> i don't disagree that in almost every homicide case they show one i but in almost homicide case it isn't a situation where you are talking about toxicology. you are usually talking about 99% of the homicide cases i do, 99% of them time it is a bullet or stab wound. >> mark, one thing that it was, an and also on the tape you hear dr. murray saying michael jackson never told him he was seeing other doctors, never told him the medication those other doctors were giving him. what's the impact of that? i'm assuming the defense says we are not culpable. >> that's what the defense is. they previewed in the opening statement that there was this lethal combination of drugs, unbeknownst to doctor murray, michael had been doctor shopping. that was the defense's opening statement was. now i anticipate they will bring in a laundry list of prescription under a laundry list of name and that will be in evidence and they will say, look, this lethal cocktail was that killed michael is not from dr. murray administering it. he didn't cause the death even if he was not rising to the level or standard of care in a doctor in this situation. he didn't cause the death and that is what they are going to argue is going to cause a not guilty. >> mark geragos, sunny hostin, appreciate your insights tonight. how a few brave kids and maybe even yours can make a huge difference in bullying. >> it get mess angry when i see somebody picked on. >> what makes you angry. >> the kid don't anything to deserve the bullying so i want to stop it. i don't want to see anything escalate. yeah, over 100 years worth. okay, so you mean you just ignore the environment. actually, it's cleaner. and, it provides jobs. and it helps our economy. okay, i'm listening. 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>> no. >> most people say that telling your parents -- parents will most likely say just ignore it. you can't ignore it. it will stick to you and you will think about it at the end of the day. >> after you get bullied you internalize it. i think of my day over and over and what everyone said about me and you start to think about it yourself. >> they have anti-bullying programs from kindergarten to 12th grade. the principal feeney? >> it breaks my heart when they keep that inside and we're not aware of it. our goal, of course, is to try to reach our students. we're not always successful but we will certainly continue to try. >> our studies show the main reason kids bully is to climb the social ladder. in a key finding, the it found most of the time bullying doesn't work. kids who bully don't actually gain social status. >> we find by and large, on average, the more aggressive you are, it doesn't have an effect on how likely you are to climb the social ladder later on. >> reporter: that could be a breakthrough. educate kids not only that bullying is destructive but why they bully is misguided and let that message spread. >> there's also the possibility that positive behaviors can also spread through social networks and kids may be more likely to intervene in bullying situations if they see their friends stepping in to stop things. >> getting kids to intervene a is crucial and these are the students on the front lines of the fight. they were ranked not as bullies or victims but the ones that step in and try to stop it. >> do you feel bullying is a big problem? >> yes. >> for andrew it was his experience as a victim that makes him stand up to bullies. >> do you think the fact you were bullied when you were younger you know what it feels like and makes you want to intervene. >> definitely makes me angry when i see somebody getting picked on. >> what makes you angry about it. >> the kid didn't do anything to deserve the bullying so i want to stop it. i don't want to see something escalate. >> according to think research, these students could be a key to stop bullying. >> the bystanders are the heart of the school social life. they have the numbers and they really hold the power to prevent this behavior. if it really is about jogging for status, then it won't work if those kids, those bystanders are actively disapproving of it or stepping in to prevent it. >> valuable lessons there. this study is part of "360's" effort with facebook and the cartoon network and "time" inc. to stop the bullying epidemic. we will have more each week and join anderson for his town hall, bullying, it stops here. it is october 14th at 8 and 10 p.m. 4g-- the next evolution in wireless technology. with advanced power, the verizon 4g lte network makes your business run faster: smartphones, laptops, tablets, mobile hotspots. but not all 4g is created equal. among the major carriers, only verizon's 4g network is 100% lte, the gold standard of wireless technology. and while other carriers may have limited lte coverage, verizon is the largest lte network in america and ever-growing. with verizon 4g lte, you can invent new ways to upgrade your business using real-time group meetings from remote locations, video conferencing, mobile credit-card payments, lightning-fast downloads, and access to thousands of business apps. plus, verizon has the largest selection of 4g lte devices and the most 4g lte coverage for your business. all on america's fastest, most reliable 4g network. no wonder more businesses choose verizon wireless than any other wireless carrier. verizon. 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